1These are the stages of the journey of the sons of Israel, who went out from the land of Egypt by their divisions, under the hand of Moses and Aaron.
2And Moses wrote down their points of departure, stage by stage, at the mouth of Yahweh; and these are their stages by their points of departure.
3They set out from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the day after the Passover the sons of Israel went out with a high hand, before the eyes of all Egypt,
4while the Egyptians were burying those whom Yahweh had struck down among them, every firstborn; and against their gods Yahweh had executed judgments.
5So the sons of Israel set out from Rameses and camped at Succoth.
6They set out from Succoth and camped at Etham, which is on the edge of the wilderness.
7They set out from Etham and turned back to Pi-hahiroth, which is opposite Baal-zephon, and they camped before Migdol.
8They set out from Pi-hahiroth and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and they went a three days’ journey in the wilderness of Etham and camped at Marah.
9They set out from Marah and came to Elim; and at Elim there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there.
10They set out from Elim and camped by the Sea of Reeds.
11They set out from the Sea of Reeds and camped in the wilderness of Sin.
12They set out from the wilderness of Sin and camped at Dophkah.
13They set out from Dophkah and camped at Alush.
14They set out from Alush and camped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.
15They set out from Rephidim and camped in the wilderness of Sinai.
16They set out from the wilderness of Sinai and camped at Kibroth-hattaavah.
17They set out from Kibroth-hattaavah and camped at Hazeroth.
18They set out from Hazeroth and camped at Rithmah.
19They set out from Rithmah and camped at Rimmon-perez.
20They set out from Rimmon-perez and camped at Libnah.
21They set out from Libnah and camped at Rissah.
22They set out from Rissah and camped at Kehelathah.
23They set out from Kehelathah and camped at Mount Shepher.
24They set out from Mount Shepher and camped at Haradah.
25They set out from Haradah and camped at Makheloth.
26They set out from Makheloth and camped at Tahath.
27They set out from Tahath and camped at Terah.
28They set out from Terah and camped at Mithkah.
29They set out from Mithkah and camped at Hashmonah.
30They set out from Hashmonah and camped at Moseroth.
31They set out from Moseroth and camped at Bene-jaakan.
32They set out from Bene-jaakan and camped at Hor-haggidgad.
33They set out from Hor-haggidgad and camped at Jotbathah.
34They set out from Jotbathah and camped at Abronah.
35They set out from Abronah and camped at Ezion-geber.
36They set out from Ezion-geber and camped in the Wilderness of Zin, that is, Kadesh.
37They set out from Kadesh and camped at Mount Hor, on the edge of the land of Edom.
38And Aaron the priest went up to Mount Hor at the command of Yahweh, and he died there, in the fortieth year after the Israelites came out of the land of Egypt, in the fifth month, on the first day of the month.
39Aaron was one hundred and twenty-three years old when he died on Mount Hor.
40Now the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who dwelt in the Negev in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the Israelites.
41They set out from Mount Hor and camped at Zalmonah.
42They set out from Zalmonah and camped at Punon.
43They set out from Punon and camped at Oboth.
44They set out from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim, on the border of Moab.
45They set out from Iyim and camped at Dibon-gad.
46They set out from Dibon-gad and camped at Almon-diblathaim.
47They set out from Almon-diblathaim and camped in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.
48They set out from the mountains of Abarim and camped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.
49They camped by the Jordan from Beth-jeshimoth as far as Abel-shittim in the plains of Moab.
50And Yahweh spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho, saying:
51“Speak to the Israelites and say to them: When you cross over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
52then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and you shall destroy all their carved images; all their cast metal images you shall destroy, and all their high places you shall demolish.
53You shall take possession of the land and dwell in it, for I have given you the land to possess it.
54You shall apportion the land as an inheritance by lot according to your clans; to the larger you shall give a larger inheritance, and to the smaller you shall give a smaller inheritance. Wherever the lot falls to a man, that shall be his; you shall inherit according to the tribes of your fathers.
55But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those of them whom you allow to remain will be as barbs in your eyes and as thorns in your sides, and they will harass you in the land in which you dwell.
56And it will come about that just as I intended to do to them, I will do to you.”
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